Most of Emily Dickinson's poems deals with death, immortality, nature, religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities. Her poetry often uses humor, puns. irony, and satire. Satire is pointing out differences between how things are and how they should be. Dickinson's poems are lyrics, generally defined as a short poem with a single speaker that expresses thought and feeling. One of her special talents is describing abstract ideas with concrete images.
The first line contradicts itself because exhilaration is exciting and a breeze is peaceful and calm. The next two lines mean that exhilaration makes you happy and takes you somewhere else and leaves you there. Exhilaration, lifts hard enough to leave us in another place, and making a statement are all bold. You don't get exhilarated and then just go back to feeling normal. It its a strong feeling that picks you up and leaves you there for a period of time. Soberly is serious we feel sad that we are no longer are exhilarated but we still remember how it felt. You still feel good but you realize it's over.
Exhilaration is the Breeze
Exhilaration is the breeze
That lifts us from the ground
And leaves us in another place
Whose statement is not found;
Returns us not, but after time
We soberly descend
A little newer for the term
Upon enchanted ground
Most of Emily Dickinson's poems deals with death, immortality, nature, religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities. Her poetry often uses humor, puns. irony, and satire. Satire is pointing out differences between how things are and how they should be. Dickinson's poems are lyrics, generally defined as a short poem with a single speaker that expresses thought and feeling. One of her special talents is describing abstract ideas with concrete images.
The first line contradicts itself because exhilaration is exciting and a breeze is peaceful and calm. The next two lines mean that exhilaration makes you happy and takes you somewhere else and leaves you there. Exhilaration, lifts hard enough to leave us in another place, and making a statement are all bold. You don't get exhilarated and then just go back to feeling normal. It its a strong feeling that picks you up and leaves you there for a period of time. Soberly is serious we feel sad that we are no longer are exhilarated but we still remember how it felt. You still feel good but you realize it's over.